IMPROVING STUDENTS, READING COMPREHENSION SKILLS THROUGH SKIMMING AND SCANNING TECHNIQUES

Abstract

This research was Classroom Action Research and the method used is qualitative approach. The action research consisting of planning, acting, observing, and reflecting. The subject of the research class of Reading for General Communication in English. The objective of this research are to investigate the student’s reading comprehension achievement after training the skimming and scanning strategy in improving students reading comprehension.The final objective is the test of hypothesis.  The  hypothesis  of this study can be formulated as follow : There is a significant difference between student’s reading comprehension achievement after training scanning and skimming  techniques and traditional technique. Date collection technique focus to students in two classes. The test consisted of the  texts by comprehension  the  questions in form of essay and objective type,  then the students answer  the questions that follow.  After researcher did  all the test for the students, researcher can find that Scanning and skimming techniques can improve the student’s reading comprehension to texts in teaching process, because researcher could see the result test that got the students, Actualy  scores that got the students by used scanning  and skimming techniques is higher then used traditional technique.